Night Drivers Still Face I-95 Headaches

September 29, 1990|By FRED LOWERY, Staff Writer

Paving work on Interstate 95 through the Boca Raton section of the expansion project is continuing to inconvenience late night-early morning traffic as work progresses toward an end-of-the-year completion.

Two lanes either northbound or southbound could be closed at various points between the end of the project south of Yamato Road and Sample Road in Pompano Beach, says Lucy Unsworth of the I-95 expansion office.

The closings, which will give paving machines and support equipment room to operate, will be limited to intermittent times between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

In addition, Unsworth said the closings also will affect on- and off-ramps for up to two hours at a time as the paving machines pass. No more than one ramp will be closed at a time.

Traffic on Palmetto Park Road under the highway is being restricted during the daytime hours, Unsworth said.

Traffic on Palmetto Park, along with Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach, may be shifted through temporary barricades to one side of the road in both directions between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The shifts are necessary to permit a margin of protection for motorists from workers installing bridge railings overhead.

Beginning in mid- to late-November, the final layer of asphalt, what engineers call the ``friction course,`` will put down on I-95, giving the road a smooth surface across all lanes.